Call of Duty: Black Ops Walkthrough & Strategy Guide

12 achievements/trophies are unlocked for completing the single-player campaign on the easier difficulty levels (normal and casual).

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125 G / 5 SILVER

** Story Related (Veteran) **

5 achievements/trophies are unlocked for completing the single-player campaign on the Veteran difficulty level.

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100 G / GOLD

**Story Related (Black Ops Master) **

While you can get this achievement/trophy by beating the game on Veteran, this particular accolade is also awarded for completing the game on the Hardened difficulty level (but you will not get the Veteran related accolades).

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15 G / BRONZE

Closer Analysis

Locate all 42 pieces of intel (14 playable stages, 3 items per stage). In this game, Intel takes just one form: a giant green 16-track tape player dating back to the 1960s -- the 16-track tapes of yore. Classic.

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15 G / BRONZE

Date Night

Watch a film or clip with a friend on Theater Mode. Xbox Live or Playstation Network and a broadband connection is required. For some online services, an annual subscription fee may be required.

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15 G / BRONZE

Death to Dictators

Sic Temper Tyrannis. Take down Fidel Castro with a single headshot in Operation 40.

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10 G / BRONZE

Double Trouble

Use only dual-wield weapons to escape Kowloon in the mission "Numbers" (not the TV show). You can switch to new weapons, but they must be dual-wield weapons or you forfeit this condition.

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15 G / BRONZE

Double Whammy

Destroy both hostile enemy gunships on the deck of the Rusalka using one Valkyrie rocket. Remember after you fire the rocket, you can detonate it by pressing fire again. If you expend one warhead and miss or down just one aircraft, kill yourself and restart from the checkpoint.

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10 G / BRONZE

Easy Rhino

In Dead Ops arcade (not on the Wii version), use a speed boost to go through twenty or more enemies at once. You can access arcade mode by entering the cheat while on the main menu (in the interrogation room).

Alternately tap the Triggers (Xbox 360) or the 1 (or 2) shoulder buttons (Playstation 3) on the first controller. For the Nintendo Wii, shake the remote and the nunchuku side to side. When about a half-dozen taps or shakes are inputted, your character will stand up.

From there, locate and identify a black and white computer terminal on the wall behind your chair. You can enter various codes using the on-screen keyboard (you can also use a USB keyboard on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360).

The code to unlock Dead Ops Arcade is DOA. Please refer to our cheats site for other codes.

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15 G / BRONZE

Eaten by a Grue

Play the Zork: The Great Underground Empire videogame (included on the Wii version). Note you don't have to finish the game, just access it. You can access this text-adventure by entering the cheat while on the main menu (in the interrogation room).

Alternately tap the Triggers (Xbox 360) or the 1 (or 2) shoulder buttons (Playstation 3) on the first controller. For the Nintendo Wii, shake the remote and the nunchuku side to side. When about a half-dozen taps or shakes are inputted, your character will stand up.

From there, locate and identify a black and white computer terminal on the wall behind your chair. You can enter various codes using the on-screen keyboard (you can also use a USB keyboard on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360).

Kill five enemies with a single lethal grenade in campaign. You're going to need to locate a spot with a cluster of enemies, and drop them with a properly "cooked" grenade.

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20 G / BRONZE

Hands Off the Merchandise (Zombies)

Kill the Pentagon thief before it can steal your loadout. This enemy only appears on the "Five" map in Zombies mode, and replaces the dog enemies as the rounds increase. To access the "Five" map for zombies, use the cheat code (see IGN cheats) or just complete the story mode.

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15 G / BRONZE

Heavy Hand

Use the Grim Reaper quad rocket launcher to destroy the Viet Minh MG nest. This refers to the MG nest after your team takes out the enemy ZPU (AA gun) on the docks, not the ZPU itself.

The Grim Reaper (the M-202 launcher) is on the docks (carried there by an American marine). You will need to take it with you a short distance past the hut you "cut across". Just past the hut is an MG nest hidden behind some junk. Destroy it to satisfy this condition.

Savvy players may recognize this quad-tube p.o.s. as the same rocket launcher used by Chris "Six Pockets" Redfield and Jill "Does This Battlesuit Make My Ass Look Big" Valentine in Resident Evil on the Playstation One.

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15 G / BRONZE

I Hate Monkeys

Kill seven caged Rhesus monkeys in the mission "Rrebirth" within a ten second time window. You can do this as either Mason or Hudson (if you left the monkeys alive as Mason). Much like the chickens at the favela, you will need to time your gun-kills with a cooked grenade (at another batch of simians) to satisfy the condition.

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20 G / BRONZE

In the Money (multiplayer)

Finish five wager matches while "in the money". This does not specify player or ranked matches.

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5 G / BRONZE

Insert Coin

Play Dead Ops arcade (not on the Wii), and battle the Cosmic Silverback. You can access arcade mode by entering the cheat while on the main menu (in the interrogation room).

Alternately tap the Triggers (Xbox 360) or the 1 (or 2) shoulder buttons (Playstation 3) on the first controller. For the Nintendo Wii, shake the remote and the nunchuku side to side. When about a half-dozen taps or shakes are inputted, your character will stand up.

From there, locate and identify a black and white computer terminal on the wall behind your chair. You can enter various codes using the on-screen keyboard (you can also use a USB keyboard for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360).

The code to unlock Dead Ops Arcade is DOA. Please refer to our cheats site for other codes.

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15 G / BRONZE

Just Ask Me Nicely

Use the cheat code on the main menu (in the interrogation room). Alternately tap the Triggers (Xbox 360) or the 1 (or 2) shoulder buttons (Playstation 3) on the first controller. For the Nintendo Wii, shake the remote and the nunchuku side to side. When about a half-dozen taps or shakes are inputted, your character will stand up. Please refer to our cheats site for other codes.

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30 G / SILVER

Light Foot

On Veteran difficulty, escape the ship with two minutes, 15 seconds left on the timer (2:15). Note that the timer doesn't start until you plant the bomb (gives you a checkpoint), so you may want to prepare by thinning out the enemies beforehand.

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25 G / SILVER

Lord Nelson

Destroy all vehicles and structures while patrolling up-river in the PBR. Woods' and Bowman's rockets are what you use (and some HMG fire).

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50 G / SILVER

Mr Black Op

Enter the Soviet relay station undetected (no alarms, starting from the beginning of the stage). Note that even if you die and retry after sounding an alarm, you will not meet the condition. It must be done perfectly from the outset. Refer to the WMD mission for the order of the enemies you need to waste.

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50 G / SILVER

No Leaks

Make it through the Nova 6 gas sequence without dying on "Rebirth Island" (your faceplate may get a few cracks ... so long as you don't die). Note that even if you die and retry, you will not meet this condition. You must do this perfectly from the outset. Can't save? Tough s—!

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50 G / BRONZE

Pathfinder

Guide Hudson's squad through the Soviet outpost without getting them killed (as the SR-71A Blackbird co-pilot). Note you cannot retry from a checkpoint, and must do this perfectly from the outset.

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15 G / BRONZE

Raining Pain

Accrue a kill count of 20 enemies using air-support in Hue City. This is easily done, as you have no time limit and limitless air-support until you hit the objective marked LZ.

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15 G / BRONZE

Ready for Deployment (Multiplayer)

Reach rank 10 in combat training. This must be done online. A subscription fee may apply for some online access.

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15 G / BRONZE

Russian BBQ

Incinerate ten enemies in the P.O.W. camp. You may want to do this on Casual difficulty; remember that each reload refills the existing fuel tank and no extra fuel is "carried over".

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15 G / BRONZE

Sacrificial Lamb (Zombies)

Shoot at, or be shot by, an ally with a pack-a-punch crossbow bolt and kill at least six zombies with the explosion.

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15 G / BRONZE

Sally likes blood

Kill three enemies with one bullet. Note that the weapon firing needs great penetration, like the Colt Python or a marksman rifle.

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15 G / BRONZE

See Me, Stab Me, Heal Me (Zombies)

Fire a pack-a-punch ballistic knife at a downed ally to revive them (at a distance).

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15 G / BRONZE

Slingshot Kid

Destroy all slingshot targets at Vorkuta with three slingshot attempts. This means one shot, one kill. Place the bottom tip of the targeting reticle just above each firing target for the correct parabola needed to score a successful hit.

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20 G / SILVER

The Collector

Buy every weapon offered on the walls in a single Zombies session. Ammo replenishment and weapon upgrades do not count.

While defending the position at Khe Sanh (Doom on you, Charlie) use one missile per tank (that's six TOW missiles) to defeat enemy armor. Don't miss. If you do, you can kill your vehicle crew using the TOW launcher to retry from a checkpoint.

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15 G / BRONZE

Unconventional Warfare

Use explosive crossbow bolts to defeat 30 enemies in the campaign. You will have this weapon for the stages at the Soyuz rocket sabotage and the Yamantau mountains (you won't be able to do stealth if you use explosive bolts). Luckily, each explosion may kill more than one enemy, so you can get this earlier than you realize.

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15 G / BRONZE

Up Close and Personal

Take out three enemies using stealth melee kills on the mission Victor Charlie. There seems to be exactly three Viet Minh who are susceptible to stealth melee kills. Once you're done with all that, you can di-di-mau the hell out of Dodge.

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25 G / SILVER

Vehicular Slaughter

Destroy all enemies riding vehicles during the prison break from Vorkuta. The notification should appear before jumping onto the train. If you don't see it, you can wait for that part of the mission to fail and try again (but only from the mid-point).

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25 G / SILVER

With Extreme Prejudice

Get to the POW compound using the Hind-17 using only its rockets. Put this on Casual difficulty if you try it, as the rockets are very diffult to aim (let alone hit anything that moves -- including the two enemy HINDs you need to destroy to reach the POW compound ... you are not Liquid Snake).

It should be noted that if you hold the rocket trigger, you queue up rockets to be fired in a salvo/ripple-fire. Knowing this, you will need to do some fancy dodging to stay alive until you can pepper both hostile aircraft with Soviet screamers.